Caddyshack meets Brookmans Park Golf Club in greenkeeper event

The regular weekly club competitions as well as matches against other clubs were briefly put on hold for the return of the Greenkeepers' Revenge event.

Traffic cones deliberately placed round the hole on the 18th green. Picture: BRIAN HALL (Image: Brian Hall)

This sees the greens’ staff make the course as difficult as possible for the players, including a few well-placed obstacles and greenkeeping equipment, including tractors.

This forced all the players to be quite creative with their golf, which some managing better than others.

A field of nearly eighty men and ladies entered the event and as expected there were no very low scores but the eventual winner was Martin Higgins with 33 stableford points, just pipping Stuart Watson and David Hobbs on countback.

The ladies from the Pearson team at Brookmans Park Golf Club. Picture: BPGC (Image: Brookmans Park Golf Club)

The highlight of the team matches against other clubs has to be the excellent result from the ladies' Pearson team.

In the Hertfordshire County competition they topped their league with six straight wins, taking them immediately into the quarter finals.

They then went on to beat Hadley Wood 5-2 in the home leg of their quarter-final tie and a 4-3 success in the away leg took them through to the finals day.

That is to be held on home soil on June 12.

Captain of the Pearson team, Wendy Plummer, then went on to win one of the club's domestic trophies, the Victory Cup, closely beating Pearson team-mate Sian Shrimpton-Davies.

The club also marked the coronation of King Charles III with a special pairs’ event combining better ball, greensomes and foursomes in one round.

The winners were husband and wife team Janis and Dave Lines with an excellent score of 40 stableford points.